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Stanley Townsend
Dublin, Ireland
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil enginee…
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Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004. Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing. ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
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2026
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
Movie Mr. Bonaparte
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2026
The Uprising
Movie Robert Bealknap
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2026
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Movie Harry Conway
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2025
Jay Kelly
Movie First Voice (voice)
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2025
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Movie Mr Parks
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2024
KAOS
TV show President Minos
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2024
The Teacher
Movie Simon Cohen
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2024
The Gentlemen
TV show Pat Gallagher
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2024
The Regime
TV show Emil Bartos
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2024
Blackshore
TV show Bill McGuire
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2023
Kinked
Movie
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2022
Andor
TV show Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
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2022
Becoming Elizabeth
TV show Anthony Denny
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2022
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Movie Narrator
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2019
The Song of Names
Movie Gilbert
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2019
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Movie Sir Constance
More credits
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2019
A Girl from Mogadishu
Movie Joe Costello
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2019
The Spy
TV show General Ad-Din
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2019
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Movie Addison Dewett
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2019
Traitors
TV show Henry
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2019
Resistance
TV show Senator Daniel Shea
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2018
Psychomanteum
Movie Narrator
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2018
The Current War
Movie Franklin Pope
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2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
Movie Phineas Stark
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2015
Galavant
TV show King of Valencia
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2014
Der Medicus
TV show Bar Kappara
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2014
Standby
Movie Paul
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2014
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Movie The Earl of Kent
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2014
New Worlds
TV show Colonel Blood
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2014
Quirke
TV show Inspector Hackett
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2014
Fleming
TV show Colonel William Donovan
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2014
The Voices
Movie Sheriff Weinbacher
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2013
The Physician
Movie Bar Kappara
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2013
Toast of London
TV show
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2013
One Chance
Movie Luciano Pavarotti
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2013
Lovely Louise
Movie Bill
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2013
Burton and Taylor
Movie Milton Katselas
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2012
Ripper Street
TV show Aiden Galvin
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2012
The Hollow Crown
TV show Warwick
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2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV show Rex Riley
